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how do I group three time ranges into shifts in Excel?
Hello all, anyone know how to group three different time ranges into morning/ evening/ night (or 1/2/3) shifts Excel 2016? thanks!
The problem was two-fold at least.
- The column in which you were displaying "Visit Time" actually contained DATE and TIME (I've changed the format only in the attached to make that visible; I did not change the values you had in those cells).
- So that meant we had to extract from that (Date & Time) field the Time only, which I've done in a new column.
- And I then formatted both that column and the table's column to read with the standard Time format. I also put in midnight as part of the night shift, for the VLOOKUP fallback when the time of the visit is in the wee-small-hours of the morning.
So I think this now works.......
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Hi, I would appreciate if you can help me why Vlookup is not working here. Kindly help me on this.
- Please start a new thread on your question rather than tacking on to a two year old thread. In the process, please give a bit more information. For example, what are the references in your VLOOKUP formula? I was able to detect that the formula itself is appearing in cell F2 (and copied down), but you use named ranges without telling us where those are.
mathetes Thanks for your prompt reply.
Name range - H2:I16
Daily from 9pm to 6am in the following day (H column) the security has to punch in 3 locations. They have -15 to 15 minutes grace period as in J and K column. I have prepared buckets based on the min and max timing.
Patrol time (B column) has the date and timing. So I take the timing and check whether timing is within the bucket through vlookup.
Thanks
Rgds
